stu wrote:

> I've been using povray for many years, through lots of distributions...
> and now, having finally downloaded debian ETCH, I find there is
> no povray on the CDs.  It was on the old SuSE, and openSuSE, but
> not on debian-ETCH.
> 
> Hmmm.  Even though Pov-Ray is totally free, debian considers it
> "non-free", and, as I said, it is nowhere on the full CD set I
> downloaded.
> 
> S-oooo... what Im wondering really is if any other debian/etch
> povray users may know of an unofficial CD including the non-free
> programs for ETCH, with povray of course ?
> 
> thanks to anyone who may know

As others said, POV-Ray is in the 'non-free' section of Debian. Add the
following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib

then :
% apt-get update
% apt-get install povray

-a.

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